Steps Towards an Adventurous Life

Steps Towards an Adventurous Life

We human beings have two choices on how we live our lives. It’s either we live it without taking risks and always playing it on the safe side or we live it by taking the necessary risks and we turn life into our own playground where we can enjoy it to the fullest and have the fun we desire. Most people nowadays act like automated machines that have steadily established routines day in and day out. But to enjoy life, we have to break free from the chains that bind us to live in a boring and mundane life. Only a few people around the world have achieved this to enjoy a fun and exhilarating life that’s filled with endless adventures.

As Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump said, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.” Certainly, life has its own ways of surprising you out of the blue. It may be big or it may be small, nevertheless it brings about a new light that reveals to us a new door or a new window of life that we can discover and explore. As for those who don’t like taking risks and are quite comfortable living in the cage that they call “stability”, it may be a different experience altogether.

There are a lot of people who have awakened from their mundane lives and stood up from their seats, went on an adventure and exchanged their lives for a more exciting and exhilarating experience that they’re going to enjoy and remember for the rest of their lives – no one can deny it. Changing your life from a stable but boring routine into a life that’s filled with adrenaline and blood-pumping actions is a scary experience. It’s like alchemy wherein you have the power to turn one kind of matter into another kind of matter. However, despite having those abilities, you’ll never know how it will turn out. You start to worry over things.

But being afraid shouldn’t be an obstacle for you if you really want to have a life that’s filled with fun and adventure. Honestly, it’s the only thing that’s stopping us from achieving what we want and it’s what limits us of what we can do. But what’s great about it is that we can fight it. We can shake it off like its nothing by mustering enough courage and upholding the dreams of an exciting life that’s going to take you on an endless voyage of joy and happiness.

People would ask, “How do I start? What do I do? How do I do it? What are the risks involved if ever I want to change my life into an adventurous escapade?” Questions are a sign that they’re scared, but it’s also an indication that they’re interested in having a wonderful, adventure-ridden life. Here are just some steps that you can take to start changing your life into an adventure, taking it one step at a time.

● Discover your own adventure – Every person has his or her own version of “adventure”. Each of us has their own inner child that just desires to go out and have some fun in the world. Think about it and find out what are the things that suit you and that bring you joy. Some people might want to go to the extreme sports like bungee jumping, skydiving, snowboarding and paragliding, but you might just enjoy and consider the more relaxing things in life as an adventure like traveling to another country, going to various landmarks, sightseeing and just enjoying the scenic views of a different place aside from the place you call home.

● Dream – You’ve always had that dream of going to another country or going to a historical landmark where you just feel that you’re on top of the world and that you want to scream out loud so bad. When you dream about the adventure that you want, it’s a sign that you want something more out of life. Daydreaming isn’t a bad habit. In fact, it’s a good thing to do as you begin adventures in our dreams first.

● Take the first step – It can be an intimidating experience to suddenly change your life and turn it into an adventure. But you can just take it one step at a time by gradually doing things that lead to your dream of an exciting life. You can search for facts and details about where you want to go or what you want to do, go and ask some people who have done the same thing that you’re still planning to do and go to libraries or search the internet about your proposed adventure.

● Face your fears – Overcoming your fears and anxieties about breaking out to the world can be a feat for most. Just imagine leaving behind everything that you knew and you were comfortable with for a transition into an exhilarating lifestyle. It can be an ordeal for a lot of people, but what most don’t realize that overcoming your fears and anxieties is just half of the fun when you have an adventure.

● Turn everything into reality – At this point, you have to stop dreaming and you have to stand up. You have to wake up and start moving to make your dreams into reality. Start by planning on where you’ll be going, what you’ll be doing and who are you going with. A dream is going to be useless if it just stays a dream. A plan isn’t going to mean anything if it doesn’t become the real deal.

● Keep a journal – If, in any case, you get a mysterious case of amnesia, you’re going to need a journal. It’s not only in case of an amnesia, but you’re going to need a journal to take note of all the places you’ve gone to, all the things that you’ve done, all the people that you’ve met, all the sights that you’ve seen and all the wonderful experiences that you’ve had over the course of your adventure. Life is your own adventure and with a journal, you will not only keep your adventures in ink, but you can also share it to your family, to your friends, to your kids and if you’re lucky, you might just have your adventure immortalized as your own novel.

● Be open-minded – Over the course of your adventures, you’re most probably going to different kinds of places. You may be traveling all around the world. But a good thing to remember is that you should be open-minded since you’re going to different places with different cultures. If you’re flexible and open-minded, you can see the true beauty of the world around you and you will start appreciating even the smaller things that life has to offer.

● Laugh your heart out – As they say, laughter is the best medicine. To change your life for the better, change on how you look at life. Your outlook and perspective on life has a large impact on how you act and live life. If you keep being positive, the more that you can see the world in a newer, more gentle light. And the best thing about is that your positive and happy nature is contagious and can be spread to other people, making them happy as well.

● Make friends – One way of keeping your life in constant adventure mode is to make friends as you go along your voyage. You’ll be exploring the world, either philosophically or physically, either way you’ll be meeting a lot of people. You’ll be discovering different kinds of people from all races, all ages and all places that you can call as your friends.

● Inspiration – This is a two-way process. As you start changing your life to become a more wonderful experience, you should be constantly inspired to go to new places, to do new things and to welcome all the things that life has to offer. And as you shine brightly while taking your adventurous life, you’ll radiate a warm aura that emanates all around you. By changing your mundane life, you’ll gradually inspire others to start changing their selves and their lives as well.

Over the course of this eBook, you’ve learned the causes and effects of boredom, what we need to change to fight off the boring and dull lifestyle that most of us have, finding our inner child and embracing that sense of adventure that we had when we were kids, the analysis of how and why there’s a need for us to have adventure, a few of the many people who changed their lives by embracing adventure, what it means to have an adventure and what are the good things that adventure can bring us. As we close the pages of this manuscript, hopefully, you’ve awakened your own sense of adventure within you as well. So, what are you waiting for? It’s time for you to go out and have an adventure. Visit ontrent for more…